Christmas 2017 Week 1 December 28, 2017 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all! View fullsize Getting into the Christmas spirit on our Thai flight. View fullsize Immediate bedtime after our midnight departure. View fullsize Welcome to Brussels, where the croissants come in mountains. View fullsize Onward and upward: enjoying the relative emptiness of our Brussels Airlines flight. View fullsize A flight with a beer menu must be a good flight. View fullsize It's a busy day for air travel! View fullsize One perk of flying a Belgian airline: Belgian chocolates! View fullsize We each got our own before landing. How deluxe. View fullsize A grey day in Toronto - but it's still 'green'! View fullsize Can't help but take a peak at our freebies on the way home. View fullsize Navigating dad's birthday present. View fullsize The protein powder from last Christmas is still here! View fullsize Watching the Paris video - hot off the press! View fullsize SNOW! View fullsize Here we are! Still in shock. View fullsize Honing my brush skills. View fullsize Fresh Costco soup after a cold day. View fullsize Mum tries her hand at watercolors for the first time in 60 years. View fullsize Now mum tries her hand at the fancy brushwork. View fullsize มาม่า noodles for sale at Walmart! View fullsize Colby's quite interested in what's cookin'. View fullsize Is Colby a lap dog, or does she just have disproportionately long legs? View fullsize Diagnosing Chris's iPad -- with a dog in the middle. View fullsize Chris's birthday dinner - Chinese food! Yum! View fullsize Colby and I have a look around. View fullsize Mystery solved: she's neither a lap dog nor a long-legged dog, she's a table dog! View fullsize Delicious birthday cake for Chris by Erika. View fullsize Here's the professional 24-opener. View fullsize Chris isn't sure if the holiday costuming is for her. View fullsize A French smile. View fullsize Eye on the prize! View fullsize Colby has no legs! View fullsize Celebrating Christmas Eve chez Grandma. View fullsize Cheers to another year in the books. View fullsize "Let me water your lap, Mother." View fullsize Looking through the new calendar. View fullsize It was turning into a white Christmas (Eve) by the time we left. View fullsize A white Christmas (Eve) indeed. View fullsize Can't stop tradition: sushi for Christmas Eve dinner. View fullsize Merry Christmas Eve, everyone! View fullsize A Belgian chocolate Christmas gift for Colby. View fullsize Well, she'll settle for a clementine. View fullsize Please, Mika? View fullsize Trying the Trat cookies. View fullsize Cleaning up after the waffles. View fullsize Merry Christmas morning! View fullsize Colby doesn't seem to thrilled about the Christmas uniform. View fullsize Beautiful tree, plump with presents underneath. View fullsize "Gifts? What gifts?" View fullsize Now Colby gets what's going on. View fullsize Dad's new airplane t-shirt. View fullsize My great new Peanuts puzzle. 1000 pieces! View fullsize Ja, Hallo? iPhone 7 Plus! View fullsize What's this? A new home? View fullsize Chris takes in the colors on her new Bangkok bag. View fullsize Off for a brisk Christmas afternoon run with Colby. View fullsize Not sure if she's enjoying these frigid temperatures. View fullsize A scrumptious Christmas meal. View fullsize Chad and Erika investigate the innards of the Christmas crackers. View fullsize Looks like a painful popping exercise! View fullsize Throwing their entire bodies into it. View fullsize Robert and I got the nice crowns! View fullsize Boxing day morning: Colby's got her eye fixed on the butter. View fullsize Pristine blue skies overhead - and frozen ground below. View fullsize But snow squalls in Orillia! View fullsize Look how big the car is! Can comfortably fit 4 in the back seat. View fullsize Colby: she's all nose. View fullsize Once we reach Bracebridge, it's blue skies once again. View fullsize Lunch at Timmy's -- since nothing else is open! View fullsize Beautiful sunny skies on the way to the cottage. View fullsize Clean shadows on one of the smaller lakes. View fullsize Undisturbed skinny trees. View fullsize Undisturbed snow on branches. View fullsize A real winter wonderland at the cottage. View fullsize We haven't seen snow this deep in a few years. View fullsize Making good use of the shovel he brought up from Toronto. View fullsize Too bad we didn't bring a toboggan! View fullsize A very frozen McKay lake. View fullsize A self-portrait in the snow - thanks to GoPro. View fullsize Two dark blobs on snow. View fullsize Nice snowy shelter overhead. View fullsize Knee-deep snow - got down our boots! Good thing it was so cold it didn't melt. View fullsize A yummy pasta bolognese for dinner once we reached warm Toronto. View fullsize Getting a head-start on our New Year's resolution: the Y on the 27th. View fullsize Hmm - do we all agree? View fullsize Don't we look stuffed! Annual dinner at Tofu Village: check! View fullsize Looking through photos of the past few days. View fullsize Preparing for Granny's memorial service. View fullsize Sorting and choosing photos - the old-fashioned way. View fullsize Layouts finalized. View fullsize Eccentric LED displays on this house. View fullsize And this house had a little bit of everything. View fullsize A blurry photo of Christmas at the Toronto Tomczak's. View fullsize For us? We're spoiled! View fullsize Jasmine and Julia model their new Christmas hats! View fullsize Another Christmas in the books.
